Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction: Helping Every Child Succeed

Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction: Helping Every Child Succeed
Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction: Helping Every Child Succeed is "a textbook for classroom teachers and teaching students that presents teaching strategies for improving elementary schoolchildren's reading comprehension and literacy," writes Book News, Inc.

Ray Reutzel (early childhood education, Utah State U.) and Ray B. Cooter (reading and urban literacy education, U. of Texas at Arlington) "cover classroom reading and oral language assessment, children's concepts about print, phonemic awareness, phonics and word attack skills, teaching and assessing vocabulary development, story comprehension, developing research and reference skills, and literature response." The third edition of Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction provides a wealth of complementary and practical ideas for teachers who need to assess and address students' reading achievement. Each of the strategy-driven chapters moves from a set of theory-informed assessment tools to intervention strategies that will address students' reading needs.

IF-THEN charts present these strategies in an instantly applicable manner. Readers diagnose the specific problem their students are having, then immediately discover which of the chapter's strategies are most beneficial in assisting them. Reading Specialists, Literacy Coaches, and General Inservice teachers.